Philippa Gregory
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357 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 25 May
Philippa Gregory’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're newly married, newly crowned, everything to hope for.
And for Catherine in particular, this is the end of years of poverty and hardship in England as the unwanted widow of the previous heir.
Now, suddenly, she's Queen of England.
Henry, they call him the handsomest prince in Christendom.
If you didn't know what was going to happen, you would think it was Camelot.
It's just lovely.
It's just absolutely full of very, very glamorous young people having a ridiculously good time, using a lot of the metaphors of chivalry because they're very keen on Arthur.
So you've got lots of jousting and...
I would say general, you know, chivalry nonsense, people falling in love with people and writing them poetry and people falling out of love and writing poetry about it.
And it's very, very attractive.
Her father very cleverly gets her a place with Margaret of Savoy at the French court as a preparation for her to be a lady-in-waiting or wife of somebody pretty important in the English court or even probably the French court.
He sends her away quite young.
We don't know exactly how young, but quite young.
And she learns French and she's brought up in this very, very cultured, very educated pro-reform of religion court in France.
And she comes home to England and literally wows everybody the minute she walks in because France is famously stylish and cultured and fashionable.
And she walks in and everybody goes like, who's this?
Who's this new girl?
Yeah, we've got a record of it, but they're doing this pretty well every month, certainly every feast day.
This is the masque.
This is the great tradition of the masque.
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